27.02.020 INTENT—PURPOSE.

This title is adopted for the following purposes:

(a) To promote the public health, safety, morals, comfort, and general welfare;

(b) To conserve the values of property throughout the City and to protect the character and stability of residential, commercial and manufacturing areas, and to promote the orderly and beneficial development of such areas;

(d) To lessen or avoid congestion in the public streets and highways;

(e) To regulate and restrict the location and use of buildings, structures, and land for trade, industry, residence and other uses, and to regulate and restrict the intensity of such uses, and to establish building or setback lines;

(f) To divide the entire City into districts of such number, shape, area, and of such different classes, according to the use of land and buildings, and the intensity of such use, as may be deemed best suited to carry out the purposes of this code;

(g) To prohibit uses, buildings or structures incompatible with the character of such districts respectively;

(h) To prevent additions to and alterations or remodeling of existing buildings or structures in such a way as to avoid the restrictions and limitations lawfully imposed hereunder;

(i) To protect against fire, panic, explosion, noxious fumes, and other hazards, in the interest of public health, safety, comfort, and general welfare;

(j) To provide for the elimination of incompatible and nonconforming uses of land, buildings, and structures which are adversely affecting the character and value of desirable development in each district; and

(k) To define the powers and duties of the administrative officers and bodies as provided herein.